Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Employment and Welfare Reform (Margaret Hodge) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
	The Industrial Injuries Advisory Council report has today been laid before Parliament. After careful consideration, I have accepted the recommendations. Amending legislation will be laid before Parliament.
	In brief the changes are as follows.
	In the case of Prescribed Disease C24 prescription has been changed from:
	
		
			  Prescribed Disease Occupation 
			 C24 (a) Angiosarcoma of the liver; (b) acro-osteolysis characterised by:   (i) lytic destruction of the terminal phalanges,   (ii) in Raynaud's phenomenon, the exaggerated vasomotor response to cold causing intense blanching of the digits, and   (iii) sclerodermatous thickening of the skin; (c) liver fibrosis. 
			  Exposure to Vinyl Chloride Monomer in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride 
			  
		
	
	to:
	
		
			  Prescribed Disease Occupation 
			 C24 Exposure to Vinyl Chloride Monomer causing: (a) Angiosarcoma of the liver; (b) Osteolysis of the terminal phalanges of the fingers; (c) Vinyl-chloride monomer-related Raynaud's phenomenon; (d) Vinyl-chloride monomer-related sclerodermatous thickening of the skin, particularly but not exclusively of the hands; or (e) Liver fibrosis. 
			  Work involving exposure to Vinyl Chloride Monomer in the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride. (Where C24c occurs in the absence of C24a, b, d or e the occupational exposure must have occurred before 
			 1 January 1984). [Exposure to polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is not a 
			 cause of the prescribed disease] 
			  
		
	
	Copies of the report have been placed in the Library, and are available to honourable Members from the Vote Office.

Lord Drayson: My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (John Reid) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
	Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Ministry of Defence departmental expenditure limits (DEL) will be increased by £109,105,000 from £30,944,726,000 to £31,053,831,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table. £000s
	
		
			   New DEL 
			  Change Voted Non-voted Total 
			 Resource 450,824 31,674,758 1,281,792 32,956,550 
			 Capital (341,719) 6,537,537 744 6,538,281 
			 Depreciation*  -7,556,000 -885,000 -8,441,000 
			 Total 109,105 30,656,295 397,536 31,053,831 
		
	
	*Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
	The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
	a transfer from capital DEL to resource DEL of £370,000,000;
	transfers totalling £8,553,000 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (£4,745,000) and the Department for Transport (£3,808,000) as their share of the National Meteorological Programme and Weather Warning Service costs under a pan-government agreement;
	a transfer of £145,000 from the Department of Work and Pensions as a contribution to the Veteran Agency's postage costs;
	a transfer of £500,000 from the Department for International Development in respect of the Sub-Sahara Global Conflict Prevention Pool;
	a transfer of £93,000 to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in respect of staff costs for the Leeds Armouries Museum Pattern Room;
	the take-up of end year flexibility of £28,281,000 capital DEL and £71,719,000 resource DEL; and
	an increase in capital appropriations in aid of £45,886,000 from QinetiQ resulting from the repayment of a loan to the MoD.
	The changes to capital and resource, together with changes in internal budgetary re-allocations, will lead to an increased net cash requirement of £459,105,000.